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next week 2/2

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Chuck (NBC, 8pm) – Chuck goes 3d and I’m sure gets into some trouble.
  • I Love Money (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – This is the show where reality contestants compete in a reality contest.
  • Medium (NBC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Allison’s got a case of the visions, or something.
  • For the Love of Ray J (VH1, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – By now you’re probably familiar with the ‘rock star’ dating shows even if you’re not familiar with Ray J.

Tuesday

  • The IT Crowd (IFC, 8pm) Season Premiere – There’s a crowd and they’re in IT.

Wednesday

  • Katie Couric “All Access” Grammy Special (CBS, 9pm) – Katie interviews the kids with the Grammys.
  • Monsterquest (Hist, 10pm) Season Premiere – This ep is titled ‘Death of Loch Ness’ but let me tell you if there was a Loch Ness, and I’m not saying there was, he’s gonna be pissed if people start saying he’s dead.
  • The Exterminators (A&E, 10:30pm) Series Premiere – Let’s head to Louisiana to get rid of some bees and some coons.

Thursday

  • Gangland (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – We see the land of gangs.
  • Street Customs (TLC, 9pm) Season Premiere – We customize a ’67 barracuda.
  • Heli-Loggers (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – It’s what it sounds like, logging with helicopters.

Friday

  • Most Haunted (Trav, 7pm) Season Premiere – Not just haunted, but the most haunted places.
  • Jockeys (AnPl, 9pm) Series Premiere – We check in on the jockeys and their horses down at Santa Anita during a 30 day meet.

Saturday

  • Tour of California (Vs, 2pm) – This preview show will take a look at the tour and I’m sure mention Lance.

Sunday

  • Grammy Awards (CBS, 8pm) – Lil Wayne has the most noms and you can tune in to see him perform along with other hot hitmakers.
  • HGTV Showdown (HGTV, 9pm) Season Premiere – It’s a family room makeover!
  • Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factor/The College Humor Show/Nitro Circus/How’s Your News? (MTV, 9/9:30/10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – Pro skateboarder, the guys from collegehumor.com, FMX, and reporters with disabilities…
  • XIII (NBC, 9pm) – Can Stephen Dorff recall whether he was involved in the assassination of the first chick prez, if not tonight check back next sunday for part two of the miniseries.
  • Mark & Olly: Living With the Machigenga (Trav, 10pm) Series Premiere – They start by searching for the Machigenga tribe.
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next week 1/19

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New and notable in the week ahead… procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

  • Australian Open (ESPN2, 12:30am, through next week*) – The open continues!
  • Electric Company (PBS, 3:30pm*) – A new generation of whatever it was this show did.
  • House (Fox, 8pm) – If you’re not a season pass sort of person you should note the new time and rumor has it we will eventually see more of the original casties Cameron and Chase.
  • Will Work for Food (Food, 8:30pm) Series Premiere – Next Food Network star competitor Adam Gertler checks out food related jobs.
  • Momma’s Boys (NBC, 10pm) Season Finale – Will the mommas and the boys agree on their romantic choices?

Tuesday

  • Inauguration (Check Your Local Listings*) – This looks like it goes on all day and night but as I understand it the actual oath taking and inaugural address happen around noon DC time.
  • Tour Down Under (Vs, 1pm*) – Lance is back and you can check him out in this tour that runs through Sunday.

Wednesday

  • Lost (ABC, 8/9pm, repeats Saturday) Season Premiere – Recapping the previous seasons at 8 then the two hour premiere at 9, I’m kind of curious as to when we’ll be and whether we’ll be doing flash backs or forwards.
  • Lie to Me (Fox, 9pm) Series Premiere – If you’re down with The Mentalist, Monk, and/or Psych, this latest guy with great observational skills put Tim Roth in the lie detector seat.

Thursday

  • Winter X Games (ESPN, 6pm, ESPN2, ABC*) – The stars of snow compete in Aspen through Sunday.
  • Bones (Fox, 8/9pm) – New time slot for our crime solving duo and the squints.
  • Burn Notice (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Our ousted spy is still trying to get answers while helping people in this mostly cheesy but fun caper show.

Friday

  • Wolverine and the X-Men (Nicktoons, 8/8:30pm) Series Premiere – Nothing much going on a friday night so I have stooped to noting cartoons.

Saturday

  • Gone Country (CMT, 8pm) Season Premiere – Non country folks like Justin Guarini and Micky Dolenz try out their country chops.
  • Miss America Live (TLC, 8pm) – Being on The Learning Channel I might think Miss America would teach me something.
  • US Figure Skating Championship (NBC, 9pm) – If you’re down with the tiny girls spinning around…

Sunday

  • SAG Awards (TNT, 8pm) – Film and TV actors honor each other.
  • The Last Templar (NBC, 9pm) – The miniseries continues on Monday as Mira Sorvino and Scott Foley do the sort of find the secret museumy, archaeological kind of thing.

* Check your local times.

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next week 7/21

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New and notable in the week ahead…

Monday

  • Wanna Bet (ABC, 9pm) Series Debut – Celebs earn money for charities by betting on the outcome of random people’s random stunts.
  • Heidi Fleiss (HBO, 9pm) – This special takes a look at the would-be madam of crystal.
  • Date My Ex (Bravo, 10pm) – I’ve never caught the Real Housewives of OC but apparently alum Jo De La Rosa is looking for love with her ex Slade Smiley.
  • Legally Blonde the Musical (MTV, 10pm) Season Finale – And a new elle woods is crowned.
  • Breaking Bad (AMC, 12am) – If you missed this series last season they are replaying the pilot episode.

Tuesday

  • Deadliest Catch (Disc, 9/10pm) Season Finale – The finale is followed by a behind the scenes look.
  • How to Look Good Naked (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – I hope Carson is helping these women with their self esteem issues though I wasn’t all that entertained by the one show I caught.
  • General Hospital: Night Shift (Soap, 11pm) Season Premiere – I’m just including this because we couldn’t figure out what Antonio Sabato Jr had acted in, and apparently this is it.

Wednesday

  • Buzzin’ (MTV, 10:30) Series Debut – Who was saying more reality of nobodies? If you raised your hand, check out Cisco Adler (of dated Mischa Barton fame) doing something somewhat music related.
  • Criss Angel: Mindfreak (A&E, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – I don’t really understand this guy but apparently he does ‘magic, mentalism, and dazzling pyrotechnic effects’.

Thursday

  • Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader (Fox, 8pm) Season Finale – I think the answer to that is usually no.

Friday

  • Dale Jr (ESPN, 7pm) Season Finale – Apparently Dale is switching racing teams and we’ve been following right along.

Saturday

  • Beach Volleyball (NBC, sa/su 11:30am) – The Crocs tour stops in Long Beach.

Sunday

  • Tour de France (Vs, 4:30am, and all week leading up to this – also CBS, 10am) – Well they’ve been riding for three weeks and as they ride into Paris who will be wearing yellow? Earlier stages throughout the week on vs. and several times each day but CBS is doing what will probably be a recap and final on Sunday.
  • Shark Week (Disc, 9pm – shows throughout the week) – Mythbusters kicks on shark week doing what they do best, busting myths and these are of course shark related.
  • Mad Men (AMC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Folks do seem to like this period show about ad guys.
  • The Next Food Network Star (Food, 10pm) Season Finale – And a food network star is chosen.
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next week 7/7

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New and notable this week, live events are typically noted as pst, check your local listings.

Monday

  • Bachelorette (ABC, 810pm) Season Finale – Will DeAnne leave without love once again, or will she join what I think is one other successful Bachelorette in beating the odds? And of course the After the Final Rose following.
  • The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale (HBO, 9pm) – Artist paints and talks and drinks.

Tuesday

  • Hell’s Kitchen (Fox, 8pm) Season Finale – Gordon Ramsay hasn’t chased all the contestants away?
  • Celebrity Family Feud (NBC, 8pm) – The Hickies and the Camden County Allstars from My Name is Earl compete.
  • Baldwin Hills (BET, 10pm) Season Premiere – Rumor has it this show is like The Hills, which I don’t watch, but apparently the people aren’t quite so vapid.

Wednesday

  • Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns (PBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – Car Talk in animation…
  • Scare Tactics (SciFi, 10pm) Season Premiere – Tracy Morgan hosts as they trick folks in a scary and mean way.

Thursday

  • Greatest American Dog (CBS, 8pm) Series Premiere – Well I know a few dog owners who think they know the answer to who is the greatest, not sure what the dogs/owners need to do to prove otherwise.
  • Burn Notice (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – As our ex spy tries to figure out why and by whom he was burned he gets forced to help the folks who did it, with help of sidekicks I’m sure.

Friday

  • Joan of Arcadia (SciFi, 8pm) – Missed this show the first time around or just miss this show, catch the pilot and fall for it again.
  • Flashpoint (CBS, 10pm – replays on Sun) Series Premiere – This elite police unit might not have much going for it but with Mr. Veronica Mars in the cast I’ll at least check it out.
  • Stargate Atlantis (SciFi, 10pm) Season Premiere – Space or water and a portal or stargate, I think.

Saturday

  • Tour de France (VS) – Perhaps today should be a catch up day for the previous week’s nearly 24 hour coverage of the tour, with Stage 8 today.
  • Beach Volleyball (NBC, Sa/Su 11:30/10:30am) – Men and then women compete in the final in the Chicago stop of the AVP Crocs tour.

Sunday

  • Big Brother (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – As we head into season 10 I can vaguely recall tuning into the first season and wondering how they could possibly get people to watch this terribly dull and cheesy show three nights a week, I can be wrong.
  • Foyle’s War (PBS, 10pm) – Masterpiece brings us the fifth round of this series.
  • Miss Universe (NBC, 9pm) – Now the prettiest in the Universe must be prettier than the prettiest in America, either that or they’re now screening super heroes.
  • Generation Kill (HBO, 9pm) – This miniseries kicks off about a Marine Unit heading to Iraq, and though the Entertainment Weekly review notes the initial difficulty in telling the troops apart they warm up to it and give it an A-.
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next week 6/30

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Monday

  • Bachelorette (ABC, 8/9pm) – After the final three go to the Bahamas the ‘Men Tell All’.
  • Wimbledon/Update (NBC, 11:35pm) – For those of you who don’t have enough time or channels to watch all the coverage this is the update time that runs through Friday, you can catch NBC and ESPN2 full coverage throughout the week.

Tuesday

  • Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Fam, 8pm) Series Premiere – Done by folks of 7th Heaven, Molly Ringwald is mom to what looks like a girl who gets pregnant at band camp.

Wednesday

  • 2008 Tour de France Preview (Vs, 1:30pm) – Catch the preview to find out who’s in and who’s out (for drug related and other issues) then catch the tour in nearly 24  hour coverage starting Saturday for Stage 1.
  • Pussycat Dolls Presents (CW, 9pm) – Did you miss this the first time around? Did you care? Check out the fifteen women who started, again.

Thursday

  • Burn Notice (USA, 6:30am) – For those of you who missed season one start with the pilot and get a whole marathon of the first season shows through the evening.
  • CSI (Spike, 9am) – For an alternate marathon option start with the CSI that started it all (in 2000 if you can believe it) and stay put for a day of crime solving.

Friday

  • US Olympic Swimming Trials (NBC, 8pm – Sat 8pm – Sun 7pm) – Lots of events… also shown on USA throughout the previous week.
  • 4th Of July Fireworks (NBC, 9pm – CBS, 10pm) – Macy’s on NBC and Boston Pops on CBS and of course check your local listings or actually go outside for some fireworks near you.

Saturday

  • Beach Volleyball (NBC, 12pm – Sun 1:30pm) – AVP Crocs tour take us to Boulder for the men’s and women’s finals.
  • US Olympic Track Trials (NBC, 2pm – Sun 7pm) – Lots of events here too… also shown on USA throughout the previous week.

Sunday

  • Wimbledon (Sat/Sun, 6am) – Breakfast at Wimbledon with the Championship coverage.
  • I Love Money (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – “Stars” of Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, and I Love New York compete for $250k.
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